From left, University president Henry Bienen; Patrick Ryan, chair
of the Board of Trustees; trustee and benefactor Ann Lurie; and
Illinois Gov. George Ryan

(Photo by Mary Hanlon)

Lurie, Pancoe Gifts Boost University's Medical Research

A $40 million gift from a University trustee to Campaign Northwestern and
a $10 million contribution from two longtime supporters have paved the way
for major medical research facilities on the Chicago and the Evanston campuses.

The Chicago facility was made possible by trustee Ann Lurie and will
be named The Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center of Northwestern University
in honor of her late husband.

The generosity of Arthur (G51) and Gladys Pancoe will result in a new
life sciences research center on the Evanston campus.

The $200 million Lurie Medical Research Center will include space for
research laboratories and offices in the fields of genetics and molecular
medicine, cancer, neuroscience, bioengineering and advanced medicine.

In addition to the Lurie gift, Northwestern received an anonymous donation
of $25 million from an alumnus, an investment of $30 million by Northwestern
Memorial Hospital and a proposed $30 million commitment from the state
of Illinois to support the University's campaign goal for the facility.
Construction will begin later this year.

"We are deeply appreciative of the extraordinary generosity of Ann
Lurie and her strong support of the field of medical research," said
University President Henry Bienen. "Her leadership, dedication and
remarkable energy have provided significant support for Northwestern's
research efforts."

When complete in 2003, the 12-story Lurie center will contain more than
200,000 net square feet of research space. It will include nine floors
of laboratories, with additional floors for support functions and a ground
floor that will offer a dining area, two auditoriums and three classrooms.

Last year, Lurie established an endowed chair at Northwestern's Medical
School named for Diana, Princess of Wales. The chair is currently held
by renowned research scientist Craig Jordan, who is known internationally
as "the father of tamoxifen." Tamoxifen is one of the most effective drugs
for women with certain types of breast cancer and has been used as a preventive
therapy in some cases.

In honor of the Pancoes' gift and a previous contribution by Evanston
Northwestern Healthcare [Northwestern, News on Campus, spring 2000],
the Evanston facility will be named the Arthur and Gladys Pancoe-Evanston
Northwestern Healthcare Life Sciences Pavilion. It will be dedicated to
the memory of the Pancoes' granddaughter, Beth Elise Pancoe, a Northwestern
student who died last summer from acute myelogenous leukemia.

A senior managing director at Bear Stearns & Co. in Chicago, Arthur Pancoe
specializes in investments in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields.
"The vision and foresight that have made Art so successful in his business
are reflected in this gift, which will benefit research in important and
growing fields," Bienen said.

The 166,000-square-foot building, which will cost more than $60 million,
is designed to advance biomedical research through the integration of
basic science discoveries with clinical investigations. Ground-breaking
is planned for fall 2000, with completion projected for 2002.

Architect's rendering of The Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center
of Northwestern University.

(Illustration courtesy of Davis Brody Bond, LLP)

Former senator George Mitchell, left, with T.W. Heyck

(Photo by Brian Kersey)

Hopeful Talk about Ireland
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, left, broker of the Good
Friday accord for Northern Ireland, delivered the first annual T.W. Heyck
Lecture in British and Irish History, named for Heyck, right, professor
of history at Northwestern for more than 30 years. Mitchell spoke optimistically
about the prospects for an agreement between the British and the Irish and
the Protestants and the Catholics: "I'm convinced that both governments
and parties are sincere in their attempts to keep moving forward." Internet
users can enjoy Mitchell's remarks by going to www.northwestern.edu/univrelations/media/mitchell.ram
to hear the speech in its entirety.

Speech, Medical, Music Deans Named

Barbara J. O'Keefe, a professor in the University of Michigan's school of
information and director of the Media Union, will become dean of Northwestern's
School of Speech July 1.

O'Keefe succeeds David H. Zarefsky (S68, GS69, 74), who has served as
dean since 1988.

"President Henry Bienen and I are greatly impressed with Professor O'Keefe,"
said provost Lawrence Dumas. "Her highly successful experience as director
of the Media Union augurs well for her leadership of the School of Speech,
since the multidisciplinary Media Union brought together communities spanning
the arts, humanities, engineering, social and natural sciences and professional
schools at Michigan."

Before coming to Michigan, O'Keefe was a professor at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. O'Keefe's scholarly interests include
interpersonal and group communication processes and their analysis, human-computer
interaction and communication technology.

In the Medical School, Lewis Landsberg, Irving S. Cutter Professor of
Medicine and interim dean of the school since August, was appointed permanent
dean and vice president for medical affairs. And in the School of Music,
Bernard J. Dobroski (GMu81) agreed to continue serving as dean beyond
his current five-year term, which concludes in June.

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From left, Larry Marshall, Jesse Jackson, and Hurricane Carter

(Photo by Jim Ziv)

Jesse Jackson and the 'Hurricane' Help Open Center for Wrongful Convictions
Northwestern University, long in the forefront of the movement to free unjustly
incarcerated prisoners, has established the Center on Wrongful Convictions.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the subject of
an acclaimed movie about his 19 years in prison for three murders he did
not commit, were the featured speakers at an inaugural teach-in last February
on wrongful convictions and the death penalty.

"I am a survivor of the American justice system," Carter was
quoted as saying in the Daily Northwestern. Once a middleweight
prizefighter contending for the title, he is now executive director of
the Toronto-based Association in Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted.

"There are many people in prison today not because they went astray,
but because the law was placed in the hands of those who went astray,"
Carter said.

The Northwestern center, a joint project of the School of Law and the
Medill School of Journalism, is an outgrowth of the work on behalf of
the wrongfully convicted by Lawrence Marshall (L85), professor of law,
and David Protess, professor of journalism at Medill, and their students.
Their successes played a crucial role in Illinois Gov. George Ryan's decision
to put a moratorium on executions in the state.

At the center, both law and journalism students work with the staff on
strategies to improve the administration of criminal justice. The center
also aims to raise public awareness of the issue.

Marshall organized a conference in 1998 on wrongful convictions and the
death penalty that attracted national and international publicity ("Righting
Wrongful Convictions," spring 1999). In an emotional ceremony at the event,
31 former inmates who faced the possibility of execution took center stage
as personal symbols of justice gone awry.

Read
All Over
Skinny and poorly read Saturday editions have plagued daily newspapers for
decades. One forward-looking publication  the Times of Northwest
Indiana  attacked the problem with the help of students from the
Medill School of Journalism.

A 95,000-circulation daily based in Munster, the Times implemented
most of the recommendations made by Medill's graduate-level Newspaper
Management Project.

In little more than a month, reader and advertiser response to the new
Saturday edition started turning around. "Letters indicate that readers
have noticed the changes and like them," said Mary Dedinsky (J69,
GJ70), associate professor of journalism and former managing editor of
the Chicago Sun-Times.

A major portion of the Northwestern proposal included a new, action-oriented
"Your Saturday" section that gave readers tips on weekend activities 
places to eat and be entertained, travel information, coupons relating
to Saturday chores and similar features.

Tech Students Tackle Business
To meet the challenges of a global economy, undergraduates in the Robert
R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science now can opt to learn
about the fundamentals of the business world through the Business Basics
Certificate Program.

Offered through the McCormick School, the program includes business-related
courses and internships for its participants. Students must take an accounting
course and three to five business courses.

"When students think about whether they would rather go to Cornell, Princeton,
Illinois or Northwestern, they will realize that Northwestern has something
to offer that the other schools don't," said William J. White, professor
of industrial engineering and management science and former CEO of Bell
& Howell of Chicago.

Grad Students Get Support
The Northwestern University Graduate School will soon be one of the first
in the country to give students year-round support. Also, this year will
see the debut of the International Summer Institute  a one-month immersion
program to teach international students speaking and writing skills and
familiarize them with teaching in a larger American university.

Almost 30 percent of the graduate students at Northwestern speak native
languages other than English.

As for the additional financial support, "the addition of more fellowships
will help us to attract only the top students from around the nation and
the world," said Richard Morimoto, dean of the Graduate School and associate
provost for graduate education.

New funds from Campaign Northwestern have also allowed for humanities
research grants of $1,500 to help continuing students defray expenses
such as travel costs related to their research.

"The impact of Campaign Northwestern on the Graduate School has been
pronounced," Morimoto said.

Sober Sisters
The Panhellenic Association, the governing body for Northwestern sororities,
voted this year to stop co-sponsoring parties with fraternities at which
alcohol is served in on-campus housing.

"The reaction has been positive," said Jackie Hosking, a Kappa Delta
senior and the Panhellenic vice president for education. "We're proud
to be one of the first Panhellenics in the country to take this stand."

While acknowledging the decision, which takes effect next fall, may put
a bit of a damper on extracurricular activities on campus, Hosking's attitude
was upbeat. "We'll just have to be a little more creative, that's
all," she said.

Crowns Aid Jewish Studies
In recognition of a major gift from the family of Lester Crown (McC46) and
of his 40 years of service to the University's Board of Trustees, the Jewish
Studies program at Northwestern has been named after the Crown family.

The gift will endow a full professorship, to be called the Crown Family
Professorship of Jewish Studies, and will support graduate fellowships
in the field.

"This gift from the Crown family, one of the most respected names
within the Jewish community of Chicago, will enable us to handle the high
demand for Jewish Studies courses at Northwestern and will help create
greater awareness of our program," said Jacob Lassner, Klutznick
Professor of Jewish Civilization and director of Jewish Studies. "This
grant also will allow us to continue to serve as a vast intellectual resource
for the Chicago community and for the Jewish community at large."

Lassner hopes to introduce new courses on a wider spectrum of topics,
particularly for the study of more modern events in Jewish history.

Last year, more than 900 students enrolled in approximately 40 courses
in Jewish Studies. The program's largest offering, History of the Holocaust,
regularly attracts more than 100 students.

Contributions from the Crown family were instrumental in building the
Rebecca Crown Center and the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion. The Arie and
Ida Crown Memorial Foundation supports a wide range of educational, cultural
and human service programs.

A Change of Address
Northwestern's Internet domain name, part of the University's e-mail addresses
and Web sites, changed in March to northwestern.edu from nwu.edu.

Because thousands of electronic messages go in and out of Northwestern
every day, the shift was made to help establish the University's identity
more clearly, said Alan Cubbage (GJ78, 87), vice president for university
relations.

The change will also standardize Northwestern's name with "the rest of
the world," Cubbage said. By expanding the name, Northwestern follows
the current trend among universities and corporations of using full names
instead of often cryptic and confusing abbreviations.

Existing nwu.edu e-mail and Web addresses will continue to work for several
years, said Tom Board, director of technology support services in the
Department of Information Technology.

A 30-minute newscast, Northwestern News Report goes out to all
of Evanston, including the University. Content focuses on hard news with
a heavy campus emphasis, said Joseph Angotti, broadcast journalism professor
in the Medill School of Journalism and the project's adviser.

"There can be large portions devoted to a single subject, but for the
most part we cover breaking news," he said.

The program is student-produced and student-directed, marking the first
time undergraduates have attempted a weekly newscast.

Douglass Cassel

Cassel Joins Human Rights Board to Foster Democracies
The Organization of American States has elected law professor Douglass Cassel
to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Justice Studies Center
for the Americas.

The purpose of the center is to facilitate training of judges, prosecutors,
police and other law enforcement officials throughout North and South
America; to promote exchanges of information and technical cooperation;
and to support reform and modernization of justice systems in the region.

The center was established after heads of state from the Western Hemisphere
mandated it in 1998 at the Second Summit of the Americas in Santiago,
Chile. Santiago will serve as the center's headquarters.

Cassel, director of the School of Law's Center for International Human
Rights, has extensive experience with organizations that monitor human
rights in Latin America. At Northwestern, he teaches international human
rights law.

Cutting the Rug for Charity
Those boogie artists have done it again. Dance Marathon 2000, held for a
grueling 30 hours in March, raised $537,645, a record for the seventh year
in a row.

Nearly $400,000 of the cash total went to Gilda's Club of Chicago, which
provides social services for cancer sufferers and their families and friends.
Gilda's Club was named after comedian Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian
cancer in 1989.

The other major recipient of funds this year was the Evanston Community
Foundation.

(Photo by James Prinz)

Piecing It Together
In 1996 an alert architectural researcher browsing through University Library
stumbled across this old color lithograph of a mosaic in the Chicago Loop's
famed Auditorium Theatre, designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
That was the final piece in a 40-year mosaic mystery puzzle. Using the lithograph
as a color guide, artisans painstakingly reconstructed the mosaic, using
250,000 tiles. They installed it earlier this year in the lobby, where the
first mosaic had either been destroyed or filched decades ago  or auctioned
off when the theater went bankrupt in the 1940s.

Brave New.com World
Northwestern's International Center for Advanced Internet Research, or iCAIR,
established in 1998 with IBM, Cisco Systems, Ameritech and other partners,
is working on several projects in the field of advanced computer networks.

One, called Internet2, is being designed primarily to meet the growing
needs of the academic world. Northwestern, through iCAIR (www.icair.org),
has joined scores of other American universities in the effort to put
the new interactive network into operation.

Also, Next Generation Internet, or NGI, a related project with Northwestern
involvement, is focusing on advanced networks for federal agencies.

Several major donors were honored in 1925 at the groundbreaking of Northwestern's
$5.6 million campus for the medical, dental and law schools on Chicago's
Near North Side. From left are Elizabeth Cobb Ward, Judge Elbert Gary,
Hortense Mayer Hirsch, Northwestern president Walter Dill Scott, Rachel
Mayer, William Wieboldt, Marion Wallace McKinlock and G.A. McKinlock.

SesquicentennialPaying Homage to Northwestern's Founders
On May 31, 1850, nine men gathered in Grant Goodrich's downtown Chicago
law office above Jabez Botsford's hardware store on Lake Street between
Dearborn and Clark. In that fateful meeting at what is now 69 W. Lake St.,
they agreed that "the interests of Sanctified learning require the
immediate establishment of a University in the North West..." It was
a noble cause, to be sure, but extremely ambitious  the prairie city
on Lake Michigan was only 17 years old and home to a mere 28,000 residents.

However, the men in that group were a true reflection of the farsighted
pioneers attracted to Chicago. As the settlement grew, the University
grew along with it to become one of the country's premier private institutions
of higher learning.

On May 31, 2000, the 150th anniversary of the University's founding,
the event was commemorated by the installation of a historic marker near
the location of that long-ago meeting on Lake Street. Northwestern President
Henry Bienen, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Illinois Gov. George
Ryan unveiled the marker. A luncheon followed, honoring the current Board
of Trustees and featuring an address by board chair Patrick Ryan.

From the beginning, Northwestern's founders worked hard to raise the
necessary money for a university, initially purchasing land at Jackson
and LaSalle Streets in Chicago. Subsequently, they bought a 360-acre tract
of property 12 miles north of the city along the lake. The community that
developed around what became the campus there was named Evanston in honor
of John Evans, one of the University's key founders. And in Chicago, Northwestern's
professional schools continued to grow and thrive after moving to a campus
on the city's Near North Side in the mid-1920s.

As for upcoming Sesquicentennial festivities, the official kickoff will
take place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20-21, which conveniently overlaps
with the Alumni Leadership Conference.

University officials have taken the nearly unprecedented step of canceling
classes after 2 p.m. on Friday, and plans are in the works for speakers,
workshops, picnics, kid-friendly activities, fireworks and more. For information,
check out www.NU150.northwestern.edu.

Born in China and trained at the London School of Economics, Mr. Hsu
was an innovator in psychological anthropology. He specialized in large
literate societies, such as China, India and the United States, focusing
on their collective psychological behaviors.

Mr. Hsu taught at Northwestern for 31 years and served as department
chair for 17 of them. He wrote 16 books and more than 130 scholarly articles.

Survivors include his wife, Vera; two daughters; and three grandchildren.

Although he only taught at Northwestern for a brief period, Mr. Klippstatter
was a well-known conductor, opera director, vocal coach, pianist and music
educator. His wife, noted mezzo-soprano Mignon Dunn, is a member of the
voice faculty.

Mr. Klippstatter became director in 1990 of the Illinois Opera Theater
at the University of Illinois School of Music at Urbana-Champaign, a position
he held until last year.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Klippstatter is survived by his sister.

The NEAR spacecraft orbits asteroid 433, called Eros.

(Courtesy of NASA/JHUAPL)

Lab
NotesSo NEAR, Yet So Far
Mark Robinson, research assistant professor of geological sciences, is playing
an integral role as part of a NASA mission team that for the first time
is tracking an asteroid. Appropriately, the NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous)
spacecraft began orbiting asteroid 433, named Eros, last Valentine's Day.

In a yearlong study, NEAR will scrutinize Eros, including its chemical
and physical features and evolutionary history. The asteroid, about 299,000
miles from the earth, most likely formed 4.6 billion years ago, the same
time the solar system was created.

NEAR, which was launched in Feburary 1996, will be taking between 50
and 900 images daily, at times with the extraordinary resolution of one
meter per pixel. Robinson has worked on imaging for other space missions
and will be processing and analyzing the color pictures to help create
the first detailed global geologic map of any asteroid.

Reducing Risks Pays Off
Individuals who reduce cardiovascular risk factors  high cholesterol, high
blood pressure and use of tobacco  may live between 5.8 to 9.5 years longer
than those with higher risk factors. Maintaining a favorable status for
all three risk factors consistently predicted roughly a 50 percent reduction
in long-term death rates from coronary heart disease and heart attack, according
to Jeremiah Stamler, professor emeritus of preventive medicine, and colleagues
at the Medical School in a study published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association.

They also found that all people with low risk factors  not just the
middle-aged and elderly, but anyone 18 and older  have a lower incidence
of coronary and cardiovascular disease and death, fatal stroke and cancer.
The group's findings were based on studies of more than 350,000 adults
age 18 and older.

Using geometry, Saari demonstrated in the journal Economic Theory
that a weighted vote of two for first place, one for second and none for
third is the most effective means of making choices among three candidates.
Patrick Buchanan won the 1996 New Hampshire GOP primary with 27 percent
of the vote. Bob Dole got 26 percent, Lamar Alexander 23 percent and Steve
Forbes 12 percent. Yet the polls showed that for the majority of voters,
Buchanan would have been a last choice.

"Allowing voters to name only their top choice is akin to ranking students
based only on the number of A's they receive," Saari said after the study.

Religion:
Not on Front Page
Despite a surging interest in religion and spirituality in the United States
over the last decade, news media coverage of these topics could stand some
uplift.

That finding arises from a research project conducted by the Center for
Religion and the News Media, a joint effort between the Medill School
of Journalism and the Garrett Theological Seminary. Between October 1998
and April 1999, a systematic content analysis was run on more than 350
television news, 150 weekly news magazine and 1,800 daily newspaper stories.

Among the discoveries in the study: Stories with a religious element
often are about international conflicts, such as Kosovo; Christianity,
Judaism and Islam nearly monopolize news about religion; and, while not
overtly biased, the stories analyzed in the study generally failed to
provide needed theological or historical context.

"Spirituality is difficult for journalists to cover," said Roy Larson,
director of the Garrett-Medill Center. "It isn't necessarily event-related
or connected to established institutions."

Campaign
NorthwesternUnexpected But Most Welcome
During her life, Elizabeth Weiss Arnold (WCAS39) never once contributed
to Northwestern and never disclosed the extent of her plan to include the
University in her will. However, when Arnold died last year, she left the
University $5 million to endow undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships
for women students.

Income from the Elizabeth W. Arnold Scholarship Fund will be awarded
annually to three to four undergraduates and an equal number of graduate
students, with first preference for female students.

"Our only regret is that we did not know the magnitude of the gift prior
to Mrs. Arnold's death, so we weren't able to thank her appropriately,"
said Ronald Vanden Dorpel, vice president for university development.

The University has little information about Arnold after graduation except
that she served as a Red Cross volunteer during World War II, married,
divorced and had no children.

The $5 million bequest is among the largest Northwestern has received,
Vanden Dorpel said.

Neurology Department Named for Davee Family
To honor the longstanding support of Ken (EB31) and Ruth Dunbar (G37, 42)
Davee, the Medical School has named the neurology department the Ken and
Ruth Davee Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurological Science.

Ken Davee, a Chicago businessperson and philanthropist who died in 1998,
and his wife, Ruth, a journalist and educator, generously supported the
medical and music programs at Northwestern for many years.

Their most recent gift will assist the Medical School with the recruitment
of faculty members and will help support neurological research and clinical
care.

Gingers' Gift for Chemical Biodiagnostics
Leonard (WCAS39) and Mary Ginger have contributed $1 million to establish
the Leonard and Mary Ginger Laboratory for Chemical Biodiagnostics in the
Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly.

The laboratory will support the work of Chad Mirkin, George Rathmann
Professor of Chemistry, and other research in nanotechnology. Until his
retirement, Leonard Ginger was a noted research scientist with Baxter
International.

The Gingers made an earlier gift to Northwestern for reconstruction of
a wing in the Technological Institute, the Mary and Leonard Ginger Laboratories
for Organic Chemistry.

Gifts
and Grants Tracking Delinquency
Linda A. Teplin, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the
Medical School, and several co-researchers have received a five-year, $14.5
million grant primarily from the National Institute of Mental Health to
analyze delinquent youths and the risk factors they face.

With the funding, social scientists will be able to track 1,800 racially
and ethnically diverse youths (1,200 boys and 600 girls) as they get older.

The grant complements an ongoing study, supported by the same institute,
of psychiatric disorders among juvenile offenders. The additional funds
will also provide for further study of the changes over time of the alcohol,
drug and mental health service needs of this high-risk group.

"Many researchers study the causes of delinquency, but few people study
the health needs of delinquent children over time," Teplin said. "This
is a serious omission because these youth are at high risk for developing
additional psychiatric disorders and sexually transmitted diseases and
becoming victims of violence."

Ovarian
Cancer Grant
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
and a consortium of institutions have launched a $5 million project to improve
detection methods of early-stage ovarian cancer in women who have no symptoms.

The five-year study, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, will
be conducted at Northwestern and 17 other sites in the United States and
Canada.

Avon
Calling
A $2.2 million gift from the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, a U.S. initiative
of Avon Products, will expand Northwestern's Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Program
and extend state-of-the-art breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and follow-up
to minority women, who often tend to be medically underserved.

The Avon gift will establish a second-opinion program to give these
women access to the latest breast cancer diagnostic equipment, clinical
diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.